Guide for starting with HDInsight on windows Installing HDInsight on windows: HDInsight installer is powered by Microsoft Web Platform Installer. To download it you can use the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=HDINSIGHT-PREVIEW After installing Microsoft WPI (Web Platform installer), run it with administrator privileges. Search Hadoop in the search box. It will locate the HDInsight preview service installer for windows. Click add to add installer to Microsoft WPI installation cart. Accept the license and click install and wait for WPI to do the installation for you. The installer also includes the hadoop package and IIS components. Verifications of HDInsight Installation Success: Four shortcuts will be created on the desktop, when the installer is finished. Click on Hadoop Command Line link. Hadoop commands can be run in this command line. Double Click on Microsoft HDInsight Dashboard. This will open the dashboard for managing the Map reduce jobs, HIVE Queries , Hadoop commands, etc . Goto [&hellip
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